If you can’t explain where you are, no matter your role, in your current release in less than a minute. Then you don’t know where you are. And that should make you wonder what you don’t know.
We use estimations to determine when we are delivering work, what needs to be done, and why. What often gets missed is understanding what the expectations are for the estimations that are being given. What is it exactly that people are looking for? (And why?) A few answers; How well do you understand the problem?How confident are you in what you are delivering?Are you building the right thing?Have you thought of “other stuff”?Who needs to…
If you have never had to performance tune your own code, you’re missing out. There is no greater satisfaction than watching your code run more efficiently and better than it did before. The best thing about performance tuning is the metrics for measurement are simple – go faster and don’t consume more than what you are already taking. If you can do those two things, your code is running better than it did before while…
Not sure when this commercial aired, but I think when it did I had just started working in software and recognized the discussion immediately. I had been on the side where someone was proposing a great idea, it had all this potential with bells and whistles that would make you drool. And then they said that we’d be doing the work or someone else would. My heart sank immediately – the people that knew what…
Sometimes, everyone needs to jump in and help. It doesn’t matter if it’s requirements, QA, development, data entry, trials, etc, etc. Everyone needs to jump in if you want to be a success. But you can’t do it all the time, otherwise, it loses its value, and then it becomes – “some hands, only these hands, maybe those hands”. Don’t let it lose its meaning, so when you do use it, everyone knows what is…